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Interview Toolkit
Interview Toolkit
Contents
Commonly Asked Questions:.................................................................................................... 4
Hobbies: ...................................................................................................................................... 9
Fresher Specific Questions: .................................................................................................... 10
Work Experience Specific Questions:.................................................................................... 10
General questions related to Academics ................................................................................ 12
Common HR Questions ........................................................................................................... 12
Interview Experience 1: ............................................................................................................. 13
Interview Experience 2: ............................................................................................................. 13
Interview Experience 3: ............................................................................................................. 14
Interview Experience 4: ............................................................................................................. 15
Interview Experience 5: ............................................................................................................. 15
Interview Experience 6: ............................................................................................................. 16
Interview Experience 7: ............................................................................................................. 17
In terview Experience 8: ............................................................................................................ 17
Interview Experience 9: ............................................................................................................. 18
Interview Experience 10: ........................................................................................................... 19
Interview Experience 11: ........................................................................................................... 19
Interview Experience 12: ........................................................................................................... 20
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Interview Experience 15: ........................................................................................................... 22
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INTERVIEW TOOLKIT
1. Introduce yourself:
Approach –
This question is a great way for you to lead the interview in the direction that you want
to, by showcasing your qualities as part of various activities you have undertaken in
your college or part of your organization, your background, education, hobbies.
Tips:
• Start chronologically.
• A normal sequence is:
Name – where are you from – undergraduate education – any achievements
during UG – work experience if any – a brief introduction about your role in the
organization – learnings – hobbies – any achievements related to those hobbies.
• Try to ensure that the points you want to discuss further are delivered at the end
of your introduction and emphasized subtly.
4. What is that one unique feature about you that differentiate you from all the
others?
Approach –
This is a chance for you to highlight your strengths and USP, what is it that makes you
stand out from the other candidates. While answering this question, make sure to
support your statements by giving examples of situations where you have displayed said
qualities
5. How can you contribute to this MBA batch and to our institute as well?
Approach –
• In an MBA class, there would be students from diverse backgrounds. It is an
opportunity for the students to interact and for mutual learning and knowledge
transfer. Hence, your answer should highlight how your expertise or knowledge
would be beneficial for your batch.
• It is better to know about the various activities that take place in a college and the
achievements of past students by going through the website. In this way, you can
frame good points about how you can contribute to your institute with your
performance.
7. What is the biggest challenge that you faced in your entire life?
Approach –
• Try to answer this question as truthfully as possible. It is also required to mention
how did you cope up in such kind of challenging times and try to highlight your
situation handling capabilities and pressure handling capabilities.
• These kind of questions gives you an opportunity to put your interpersonal skills
before the panelists.
• Some panelists might ask this kind of questions suddenly. Thus, it is important to
think on this question lines and analyze any other questions and be prepared.
• Use STAR approach to answer.
The STAR format stands for Situation, Task, Action, Result:
• Situation: An event, project, or challenge faced
• Task: Your responsibilities and assignments for the situation
• Action: Steps or procedure taken to relieve or rectify situation
• Result: Results of actions taken.
8. Have you faced criticism anytime in your life? How did you respond?
Approach –
• This kind of questions will be asked to test your mental stability. How you
control your emotions in such situations and respond accordingly.
• Try to maintain a calm demeanor and positive mindset while answering this kind
of questions. Use STAR approach.
Example: I analyzed their comments and considered it objectively if there are any
lacuna from my side and rectified myself afterwards.
Questions on similar lines: What is the biggest failure in life? How did u cope up with
it?
9. What are your biggest achievements and failures (What went wrong and what
would you have done differently)?
Approach –
• While answering to your biggest failure, make sure you don’t portray yourself as
weak and incapable. Also, try to bring what you learned from your failure and
how did you overcome it.
• An interviewer knows that no one is perfect and the biggest failure can lead to the
biggest success. This also tells them how you view risk, failure, and success in
general.
• While answering: 1) Smartly choose your failure 2) Share the story 3) Tell what
you learnt from it
Through such question, interviewer wants to know how you can be an asset and bring
contribution to the institution. While speaking about your achievements, try to mention
how you achieved it, what were your learnings throughout the journey.
• Say that the main reason for choosing general MBA is to gain holistic knowledge
about all domains and say that you believe this would better helps to analyze a
situation more efficiently and make decisions in any critical situations.
• Be very cautious with this answer: You can say any specialization that you are
interested in, but be ready to face typical connecting questions.
Example: Finance
Be ready to face basic questions related to Finance subjects or any current affairs related
to this branch such as budget or any monetary policies.
Hobbies:
Hobbies is a section where we get a chance to showcase our talent apart from our
academics and link it with our strengths and how it has shaped our personalities as well
as our idols and their qualities which we admire.
- Who is the best player in the sport (as chosen by the candidate) and give
reasons for your answer?
- You could have pursued a career in the sport or activity yet why you
moved towards academics?
The common and popular hobbies and questions surrounding those are:
Sports:
- What are the popular players? Why?
- Do you currently play?
- Any recent news?
- Dimensions of the ground/court as well as the popular rules?
Music:
- Do you play any musical instrument? How do they work?
- Why this particular instrument? Any maestro in this area that you follow?
- Do you have any achievements in this field?
- What have you learned from them?
Reading:
- Genre of reading
- Last book that you read
- What were the learnings or anything particular you enjoyed about this
book?
- Favorite author, books, why this particular author?
Art:
- What kind of art do you do?
- What all stuff is required for this?
- Do you post this anywhere?
1. As a fresher don’t you think if you had work experience, it would be beneficial
for you and make your MBA more fruitful?
Approach -
It is important to know that being a fresher there would be some disadvantage when it
comes to MBA is 100 % wrong.
There would be advantages and disadvantages in every step that everyone makes. Here
it is important to know how you are going to use your advantages to nullify your
disadvantages and use that for your positive gains.
So, your answer should highlight the positives that you are going to gain with MBA
1. Explain a situation in which you disagreed with your manager and how you
handled it.
Approach –
• This question could determine how you respond to disagreements when it is with
an authority figure and how it could impact your ability to perform assigned
tasks. Your response can show your ability to follow instructions and how you
approach a disagreement with your manager or supervisor.
• When answering this question, provide an honest example of when you disagreed
with a supervisor and how you were able to resolve that conflict.
• If you do not have any disagreements, you can tell how you responded to
criticism from the manager.
Frequently Asked Questions to candidates with Work Experience:
• What was your role/responsibility in your job?
• How did you contribute?
• What are your learnings? How can you leverage it in your MBA?
• How can MBA help you after what you have learnt from your job?
• Questions specific to the technology/domain you worked in?
• Questions on technology/domain competing to technology/domain in which you
worked
• Few questions about your client
• Questions on firms which are competitors of the firm in which you have worked
• Biggest challenge that you faced during your Work experience at your
organization
• What motivated you to be associated with your previous organization? Why did
you leave the company? Describe one change you’d like to bring in this
organization, given the chance and power.
• If I call up your current or previous reporting manager now, what will be their
opinion about you? What will they say that you need to work on?
Common HR Questions
• Describe two situations when you have demonstrated leadership and inspired
people towards achieving certain goals. What kind of leader do you think you
are?
• Tell us about a time when you were swamped with tasks. How did you prioritize?
• When was the last time you got into a major argument with your
friends/colleagues? What was the issue, and how did your point of views differ?
How did you resolve the issue?
• What is the most difficult thing that you’ve ever accomplished?
• What are your hobbies or what are you passionate about?
• Can you describe your time management skills with an example?
Interview Experiences
Interview Experience 1:
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1. Why are you interested in pursuing an MBA despite having a good amount of
work experience?
2. What are your short-term & long-term goals?
3. Can you describe how your academic history and work experience play into your
current choice of pursuing an MBA?
4. Which newspaper do you read?
5. Tell us some recent Business Happening or something you read in the last 3-5
days in the newspaper
6. What is Fiscal deficit?
7. Tell us your 3 strengths & Weaknesses.
8. What are you doing to overcome your weaknesses?
9. Why should we select you over other candidates that have received the call for
DMS PI interviews?
10.Guesstimate - How many red cars are there in your city?
11.Home state related static or current affairs questions
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6. West Bengal is situated in which direction of India? It’s placed in the East, so
why it’s called West Bengal? For what it is famous for? What are the
neighbouring states?
7. What is GDP?
8. What is the current GDP of India?
9. What is R square?
10.Few questions related to past achievements
11.You have already published a paper in Chemical engineering field and had 4
years of work ex in that area only. Then why do you want to shift your domain?
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5. How does a transformer work? What are the losses associated with it?
6. What is the difference between a transformer and a generator?
7. What is your opinion about TikTok ban in India?
8. If selected, what value addition will you bring to the DMS batch?
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4. Recently there has been a transformation in the Indian Defence Forces, are you
aware of that? (Referred towards the appointment of CDS Bipin Rawat)
5. What are greenfield and brownfield projects?
6. How do you explain sustainability in business with continuous profitability?
7. Illustrate with reason - Who do you like the most - Jeff Besos or Elon Musk?
8. As you have worked in a manufacturing setup, what is lean six sigma?
9. So, you are interested in financial markets, differentiate between fundamental and
technical analysis, stocks and mutual funds. Can you name the stock which has
the highest stock price in India? (Answer - MRF)
10.Have you heard about Khap Panchayat? What are your views about village
governance through a centralised code of conduct? (Was not aware of Khap
Panchayat)
11.Tell us one moment of success or failure from your work experience that you will
cherish for your life.
12.What is more important to you - constant learning with mediocre growth or
minimal learning with a hefty paycheque?
Interview Experience 9:
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1. Interview started with "How are you and what is going on with you today". The
discussion then went on how was I attending a marriage online.
2. Allocation of Delhi's budget in healthcare sector. Whether is it justified or not.
3. Should the government be allocating money in some other healthcare facilities or
institutions apart from the ones they are already investing in?
4. Why were you awarded Spot Recognition Award in the last company you have
worked in?
5. What are your suggestions to resolve the issues faced by the company in the
project you were working in?
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22.Which other interview calls do you have and where do you place DMS, IIT Delhi
in your priority list?
23.Why do you feel you did not get calls from top IIMs?
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1. Can you mention few things that your city/state is known for?
2. How many types of bridges are there? Give an example of each bridge type
within India.
3. How would you design a public utility building keeping in mind the access
requirements for disabled people?
4. What do you understand by the term sustainability? Mention some instances of
how it is being incorporated into the construction industry?
5. What are the standout differences of rail infrastructure in the UK as compared to
India? (Given the candidate’s experience in UK rail sector)
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1. Why do you want to quit your job and join an MBA course?
2. Which domain are you interested in?
3. Roles and responsibilities during work-ex.
4. Opinion about farmers’ protest against farm laws.
5. How can Virtual Reality be used with apps like Nykaa.
6. Infosys was in news in the past couple of years due to changes in the top
management. What are your views about that?
7. How would you resolve a conflict while working in a team?
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